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Jerry Day

March 04, 2008 03:35PM

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William:

I have read all the Gunnison newspapers from 1881 to 1955 and they only mentioned a few of these specials. The newspapers were erratic in their coverage of the railroad. These small town newspapers depended a lot on springers who would call in or send in news stories. Some of the stringers were housewives who were mostly writing about local church and club activities and who had died or had a baby, etc. Sometimes they would not even know what was going on with the railroad. The lady who was their stringer in Crested BUtte owned a liquor store and got lots of her news from railroaders who were her customers.

Jerry Day

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D&RGW #499	railsnw	March 01, 2008 12:02PM
Re: D&RGW #499	WilliamDiehl	March 01, 2008 12:06PM
Calling "The Josh"	Stephen Peck	March 02, 2008 07:20PM
Re: D&RGW #499, Part 2	railsnw	March 01, 2008 12:12PM
Re: D&RGW #499, Part 2	Larry R	March 01, 2008 01:06PM
Re: D&RGW #499, Part 2	mesaman3000	March 01, 2008 02:01PM
Re: D&RGW #499	Mike Trent	March 01, 2008 04:19PM
Re: D&RGW #499	CharlieMcCandless	March 01, 2008 04:54PM
Re: D&RGW #499--not green, sorry...	drgwk37	March 02, 2008 05:59PM
Re: D&RGW #499--not green, sorry...	Earl	March 02, 2008 06:20PM
Re: D&RGW #499--not green, sorry...	railsnw	March 02, 2008 10:01PM
Re: D&RGW #499	round_house	March 02, 2008 06:39PM
Re: D&RGW #499	Jerry Day	March 02, 2008 08:47PM
Re: D&RGW #499	Jimmy Blouch	March 02, 2008 10:50PM
Re: D&RGW #499	Jerry Day	March 03, 2008 08:31AM
Re: D&RGW #499	drgwk37	March 03, 2008 02:34PM
Re: D&RGW #499	Jerry Day	March 04, 2008 03:35PM
Re: D&RGW #499	Mike Trent	March 04, 2008 02:17PM

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